People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.

You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I won't say goodbye to you Xena, 'cause we'll be together again one day.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?